Ice Fishing Site

A key thing to do to ensure that your bait is lively and enticing fish is to check and move your tip ups and traps.  It sure seems that a tip up checked regularly catches more fish than the ones that have been just sitting there.  It could be that the minnow is getting jostled [...]

Here is a great video displaying how to remove the Y bones on a northern pike.  Pike are great fish to eat and the ice fishing action can be fast and furious using a tip up or trap.  The biggest problem after keep some pike is to clean them and remove all the bones.  The [...]

Fishing with tip ups can be a great way to catch fish through the ice, especially northern pike.  While the concept of a tip up is fairly easy to grasp, utilizing one to its maximum effectiveness requires some fine tuning of techniques.
First thing to remember is that fish will often rise up to take a [...]

The St. Paul Ice Show is this weekend and if you are in Minnesota and an ice fishing fanatic, this is the place to be.  Billed as the largest ice fishing show in North America, this show literally has everything you will ever need or want for ice fishing.  There are vendors from all the major [...]

When multiple lines are available to be set up, as is the case in most states for ice fishing, an ice fishing trap (or tip up) is a great way to catch fish. Simply drill your holes, set up your traps and wait for the flags to pop.

Ice fishing traps are relatively simple to [...]